What is Fantasy Sports?

Fantasy sports has been a popular pastime for many years, as far back as 1960. That year, a fantasy baseball league began in Boston. Harvard University sociologist William Gamson started the “Baseball Seminar” where colleagues would form rosters that earned points on the players’ final standings in batting average, RBI, ERA and wins.

Fast forward to present time and fantasy sport online games are more popular than ever.

Wikipedia said it best: A fantasy sport is a type of online game where participants assemble imaginary or virtual teams of real players of a professional sport. These teams compete based on the statistical performance of those players’ players in actual games.

So who plays fantasy sport games? An estimated 56 million people in North America, that’s who! Some games include FanDuel, DraftKings, and DraftDay.

You can see how popular it is. It’s a sport game where you risk and win real money. It’s all legal deu to The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which Congress passed in 2006. It says fantasy sports are allowed under federal law because they are classified as a game of skill rather than a game of chance.